Thomas Landstreet | Author & Former VP at Laffer Associates, Forbes Top Contributor and Award Winning Hedge Fund Manager

Thomas Landstreet

Author & Former VP at Laffer Associates, Forbes Top Contributor and Award Winning Hedge Fund Manager

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Biography

Tom Landstreet is an analyst and investment fund manager with the heart of a teacher. He shares his wit and wisdom about the global economy and financial markets to audiences around the country. He was a long-time contributor to Forbes.com, CityWire and other publications as well as a regular guest on cable news. Most of his time is now spent researching ideas for his funds.

Importantly, he is a practitioner, not a “talking head.” His thoughts and ideas go into an investment portfolio. As a macro-oriented and thematic investor, he must know something about…almost everything. It’s a big task for a mortal but a benefit to his audiences.

He also approaches his topic from a “supply side” perspective having worked for the celebrated creator of the Laffer Curve, Dr. Arthur Laffer. Laffer was famous for counseling Ronald Reagan on his game changing tax cuts of 1982. Tom is an expert on the economic consequences of government policy.

Of equal importance to audiences, Tom is an entertainer. As a young man he performed at some of New York’s leading comedy clubs. He would tell you this has helped him in his government policy analysis. Tom currently performs in The Cameroons band from Nashville as a serious hobby.

Naturally, he resides in Music City (Tennessee is a no income tax state). Perhaps his greatest accomplishment is that he has been married for 35 years to his college sweetheart and is the father of 3 (mostly) well-behaved children.

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Shifting sands
How the global economic policy environment will create opportunities and risks for American business

Tom Landstreet advises audiences to be careful and to improve their efficiency now as the future is more uncertain than at any time in decades. It's time to contemplate the unthinkable as surging global sovereign debt, rising interest rates, inflation, trade wars, "hot" wars and asset price bubbles create shifting sands for investors, businesses and families.

Booms and Busts don’t happen in a vacuum

Tom probes the great economic cycles of the U.S. over the last 100 years. He describes the factors that created the great depression and how bad policies deepened and prolonged the agony. He analyzes the "go-go sixties," the great inflation of the 1970s, the Reagan/Clinton bull market and more. He proves that government economic policies are to blame for these outsized economic cycles.

Some of these policies are so absurd that they verge on comical yet they come from (theoretically) the smartest people in our society. This is a content rich and very humorous economics lesson.

Rethinking inflation, why there is no inflation in the modern economy

This is an entertaining and vital lesson in supply-side economics. Up until recently, the broad consensus was that interest rates were on the rise and the U.S. federal reserve was behind the curve which would force them to aggressively raise rates to fight incipient inflation.

Well, there has been no inflation and interest rates remain under 3% What happened? Where did everyone go wrong? Tom explains why supply-side economic policy reforms on four continents have reduced the cost of production and prices in the real economy.

Income inequality
It’s not what you think

Income inequality is a hot topic and will remain so in the upcoming election cycle. Tom argues that the widening disparity between rich and poor is not a consequence of capitalism as critics argue, but just the opposite. Heavy-handed government regulatory policies crushed the real economy driving wages and average household incomes down on Main Street. Meanwhile the federal reserve, in a desperate attempt to foster growth, inflated financial assets by over 300%, helping only Wall St. and those citizens with significant financial assets. It’s precisely too much government that created the problem.

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The Return of Stagflation? Thomas Landstreet’s Insights on Economic Policy

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The Winner In Trump Vs. OPEC: Lower Oil Prices

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Why Bubble Prices In Beef, Poultry And Pork Will Collapse, And How To Profit

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Say Goodbye To The Ethanol Mandate; Time To Gorge On Restaurant Stocks

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